The Decipher Capital Team

Jonhnson Nakano

Co-Founder & General Partner

Jonhnson has extensive experience in both software development and investing. He started investing in stocks when he was eighteen and bought his first bitcoin in 2014. Prior to starting Decipher Capital, he was a senior engineer at Salesforce. There he focused on building large scale applications for Salesforce's biggest customers.

Jonhnson holds a B.A. in Industrial Engineering, from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Jonhnson Nakano

Co-Founder & General Partner

Joel Camacho

Co-Founder & General Partner

Joel has a background in company valuation and transaction execution as an ex-Wall Street banker. He became intrigued in valuation methodologies for blockchain projects back in 2016. Prior to founding Decipher Capital, Joel was an Associate in the Tech, Media, and Telecomm (TMT) group within the Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division.

Joel speaks Mandarin and Spanish, and holds a B.A. in Financial Economics from Columbia University.

Joel Camacho

Co-Founder & General Partner

Harshitha Kilari

Co-Founder & General Partner

Harshitha directs investment research and helps shape the overall strategy of the firm. She’s particularly intrigued by the multidisciplinary nature of the blockchain space and enjoys exploring its intersection between economics, finance, and technological innovation.

Prior to Decipher, she did a stint as the CFO of an edtech startup and spent three years in the prestigious TAP program at Capital Group.

She holds a B.A. in Economics-Mathematics from Columbia University, which she completed in 3 years.

Harshitha Kilari

Co-Founder & General Partner

Latest Blog Posts

Our blog, Deciphering Blockchain, emerged from individuals asking to get copies of the content we produced for our events in San Francisco. People have enjoyed our format of diving deep into blockchain-related concepts and approaching the topic from different viewpoints.

There are many Meetups and conferences surrounding the topic of blockchain but conversations tend to stay surface-level. Our blog will explore, more than surface deep, topics the blockchain community is interested in understanding better.

Conferences

During the panel titled “Cryptocommunity, Businesses, Banking, and Regulation Cooperation for Greater Impact”, he stressed that companies in Web 3.0 will have to incorporate business models that better compensate consumers for access to their data – something that hasn’t been the case in Web 2.0.

He presented on how asset tokenization will impact financial services and venture capital. Tokenizing equity from the time a founder is raising her first round of capital will (1) significantly broaden the investor base for her capital raise and (2) reduce the large illiquidity discount associated with venture capital/private equity investments. Ultimately, the benefit to the founder will be she gets to raise capital at more attractive valuations, and VCs will have access to opportunities to exit their investments beyond just the traditional IPO or M&A.